El Salvador #1

July 15th

Early morning flight from HNL to LAX.  Hampig drove me to the airport with the small board bag (6'2" Fish and 6'8" Thruster).. how nice.  Not lugging around a 10' boardbag around the airport is definitely a plus.  Typical 5 hour flight to LAX, but at least this time I got the upgrade to business class which was a nice bonus.  Hung out at the admirals club in LAX waiting for free (seven hour layover) with wireless and a ESB in hand.  Good stuff.  Free got in and we immediately found a margarita and started the good times.  Finally hopped on our overnighter to El Salvador.  Didn't get much sleep, but we were ready to get to another country and surf.

When we arrived it was nice to be the first off the plane.  I got hassled a bit by customs b/c they kept saying why wasn't I staying longer than a week. My answer was I got to work man.. got to work.  We had to push the random button and it was impossible, but we both got the red light and had to be searched.  Pretty lame search.. just a quick rummage through our backpacks.. not even a look in the boardbags.

Eluid was waiting for us when we got out of customs and off we were whisked to K59.  It turns out the airport is no where near the capital city of San Salvador.  After a quick hour or so of driving we ended up at Edgard's house at K59.  We quickly unloaded the boards, waxed and polish and jumped in to catch the tail end of a nice south swell peeling off the point.  Perfect rights and the fish was eating it up.  So much room to carve the wave face. Nice to be with the local group and they are pretty protective of the break from outsiders.  Many fun waves to be had and the water was practically hot as a bath.  Super fast zippy point breaks... ahhhh!  River rocks line the entire beach and it is like walking out at Rincon.  Got to time getting in a out.  After a late morning surf we settled down for our siesta before hitting it again for a late afternoon glass off which occurs after the rains come through.  Perfect way to start the first day.

July 16th.

Swell dropped a bit today, so we headed to a beach break call El Mizata just north of here. Fun beach break, a bit to hollow and fast for the fish, but good times.  We headed into La Libertad to walk about the market.. Monday is the busy days as merchants from out of town make their weekly stop in town.  Walked through the fish market down on the pier and had a cold cerveza in hand by noon sitting at the bus depot.  Free managed a little shopping.. dress, soccer shorts and the endless quest for a used Machete.  We drank a bunch of beers roadside waiting to get water and then headed to Punta Roca restaurant owned by Bob.  Managed to get plastered in Pilsners and had a great lunch of fish and tortillas.  Drunkards rolled back to K59 for a deep siesta slumber all afternoon.  Managed to wake up in time for another amazing glass off session out front. Head high, fast, and totally carveable wave faces. Took the 6'8" out and had a blast with Luis (the other surf guide).  Did manage to get my first barrel.. yah!!! Finally after trying for the past six months.  It was pretty cool feeling.

Watched a scary movie (final destination) and we both slept like shit.  For two guys who fly most of the time, it was not a good movie to watch.

July 17th

After a toss and turn night, we headed out to Sunzal with the longboards to do some logging.  Awesome point break set up much like  38th in inside pleasure point.  The shortboarders were having a hard time getting into the flatter take off area, but Free and I had no problem.  The long rights walled up great on the inside and plenty of noseriding was had by all.  Interesting sections to try to make it through.  Free fucked up his back paddling, and I got washed up on the rocks.  Managed to keep Kaya's new team ryder from getting dinged, but I paid the price.  Free is now sleep on the floor hoping to sleep off the pain.  We'll see what happens tonight.




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